Richard Baxter Quotes

The Gospel has never changed.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

God without Christ is no God.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.

The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.